ABSTRACT
As we have seen, it was during the 18708 that a stricter codification of social class came into being and the easier identification of a working class only served to isolate the growing middle class which chose to live out of town in the new 'suburbia' .3 In sporting terms the new money of this class facilitated the spread of recreation shown by the enormous increase in the number of sports clubs in suburban areas used by the youth of the new bourgeoisie who had the time and money to join them.4 Whilst the growth of middle-class sport was noticeable in membership levels at clubs, in working-class culture it was more evident in increasing levels of spectatorship, .perhaps as a result of working people's disinclination to tire themselves further with physical efforts but also because until 1902, unlike their social superiors, they had no physical education which might have encouraged them to participate in greater numbers.
